Yet until recently, scientists didn’t fully understand why bats are so good at harboring pathogens that don’t seem to harm ...

"Citizen scientists" in southern Arizona who have been documenting bat activity in their own yards helped the U.S. Fish and ...

A team of animal behaviorists at the Leibniz-Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science's, Museum für Naturkunde, and ...

Bats may broadcast their personalities to others from a distance, new experiments suggest, which could play into social dynamics within a colony.

Bats that are on the ground can still take off ... He covers all things human origins and astronomy as well as physics, animals and general science topics. Charles has a master of arts degree ...

The skin of dwarf crocodiles found living in a cave in Gabon is turning orange from swimming in guano. It's unclear how long ...

“Today I want to be a bat,” and my mom would say, “Go for it.” I went through a phase where my parents had to tell me, “You are human.” Even now when I go out on safari and see an ...

An curved arrow pointing right. In a wild animal market in Indonesia's North Sulawesi province, bats are still on the menu. Many of them are caught by hunters in forests using nets and hooks.

In New York last week Death, as it must to all creatures, came to the Bronx Zoo’s female vampire bat, 16 weeks after Dr. Raymond Lee Ditmars had brought her from Panama (TIME, Oct. 2).

The behavior is rare and difficult to observe, which is why long-distance bat migration has remained an enigma. Now, scientists from the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior (MPI-AB ...